I finally got around to washing a bunch of handknits yesterday. As you can see, it was mostly a load of socks. They seem to survive a trip in the front-loader on cold with some Woolite without much problem. The few that have shrunk/felted a bit suffered that in previous laundrymat experiences. Of these 16 pairs, 1 is Kevin's and 3 were knit for me by someone else. I just recently updated my sock gallery and I'm up to a lifetime of 30 knitted pairs of socks with 31 and 32 on the needles and potential 33 and 34 waiting for mates and likely 35 to be ripped.

It seems that sock knitting is the only knitting motivation that I have right now. But certainly not the only motivator in my life...


Meet the Bell Motivator! After months and months of my bike sitting in our computer/craft/spare room collecting dust and taking up space, I wondered if there was a way to make an outdoor bike into an indoor bike. I should have thought of this sooner! After a little research on trainers (that's what the bike stand thingy is called because it has a resistance component so that you can "train" for your biking adventures indoors during bad weather). It isn't perfect, but my bike is now basically a stationary bike that both Kevin and I can use. It will probably remain an indoor bike because I am too terrified to ride it outside where we live (people drive like maniacs... they don't respect other cars, I doubt they'd respect someone on a bike).

So I've got motivation for knitting socks, motivation for riding my bike... if only I could locate that motivation for doing work since school starts again on Tuesday. Bleh! Back to browsing Ravelry with the hope that my first day lectures will magically write themselves and appear on my computer.